Building (Approvals and Practitioners) Act 2026
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194 Giving documents
194 Giving documents
(1) A document that is authorised or required by this Act or the regulations to be given to a person may be given in one or more of the following ways—
(a) by sending the document to a postal address or email address specified by the person for receiving documents of that kind,
(b) for an individual—by personal delivery to the individual,
(c) for an individual who has not specified an address—by sending the document by post to the residential or business address of the person last known to the person giving the document,
(d) for a body corporate—
(i) by sending the document by post to an office of the body corporate, or
(ii) by leaving the document with an individual who—
(A) is at an office of the body corporate, and
(B) appears to be over 16 years of age,
(e) in another way authorised by—
(i) the regulations, or
(ii) another Act or law, including rules of a court.
(2) In this section—
give includes serve and send.
office, of a body corporate, means the registered office or another office.